Arch Linux Magazine, April 2010

I promised the community that we'd be back to our standard format this month, and as promised, we are! Once again, ALM brings you an insight into the community that can be found nowhere else. As with anybody else, we had to pull an April Fools gag of our own... see if you can find it! Unfortunately, I don't had a spare netbook to donate to whoever finds it first... check out April Fools Challenge for more info.

Re: Arch Linux Magazine, April 2010

These are exactly the reasons why I fail to take Linux (and it's community) completely seriously. You can't depend on anything or anyone. What would I have done if I was in a desperate need of some information on that site? Best case scenario would be minutes lost digging my way through that mess. Worst case would be hours trying to find another source. If kernel.org think of itself as unimportant enough to effectively close down for a day, just for the fun of it, why not close the site for good?

Re: Arch Linux Magazine, April 2010

These are exactly the reasons why I fail to take Linux (and it's community) completely seriously. You can't depend on anything or anyone. What would I have done if I was in a desperate need of some information on that site? Best case scenario would be minutes lost digging my way through that mess. Worst case would be hours trying to find another source. If kernel.org think of itself as unimportant enough to effectively close down for a day, just for the fun of it, why not close the site for good?

I too really, *really* hate april fools.

I think that you could simply click in "Normalize page" link (top righ) :-)

Re: Arch Linux Magazine, April 2010

For those having trouble reading the magazine, this is what I did since the PDFreader I use doesn't have a horizontal flip option. I converted the individualpages to ppm files with: for i in $(seq 1 8); do pdftoppm -f $i -l $i ALM-2010-Apr-1.pdf foo; doneThen I read the files using xv (any image viewer will do) after flipping them with 'h'.

Anyway, the last bit about Multixrulz lugging computers around Australiafor 17 months has the sense of an April Fool about it.